The notion of a God that has created me is terrifying to me. It seems to imply that The Church did not just implant their exoself next to my self into the reality generated by my brain, but that this exoself replaced the native self of the host with a new self of its own creation
No, the lay people within a religion are usually not supposed to understand how their religion works. There is often even a taboo against looking too closely at other religions. The lower ranks are mostly expected to run a model that is considered to be best for their role.
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exactly why I thought a religion can't be self-aware, because I was modeling self-awareness as something that needs to be part of the base virus, but indeed it does not.
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The cost of achieving full individual self awareness may be very high (what do you do with people that are difficult to wake up? and is it not useful if the lower ranks are eager to reap the rewards of the afterlife?). Personally, I'd prefer to be part of a lucid civilization.
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